Ever since Elon Musk shared his blueprints for the hyperloop – a revolutionary transport system that has the potential to shuttle humans at speeds of more than 1,200 km/h (746 mph) – the engineering community has been in overdrive, with hyperloop prototypes popping up all over the place.

And now Musk has put up footage of a test pod accelerating to 324 km/h (201 mph) over the space of just a few seconds, and… well, we’ll let you watch for yourself, because it’s pretty spectacular stuff.

The footage was shot at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition over the weekend, and this is the winning design in action:

The competition was held at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and this design – known as the WARR Hyperloop – was created by a team of 30 students from The Technical University of Munich in Germany.

The WARR Hyperloop pod is powered by a 50 kW electric motor, is made from carbon fibre, and weighs just 80 kg (176 pounds).

The hyperloop system works by using magnets to shuttle a levitating pod through a tube that contains a partial vacuum – allowing pods to accelerate without friction to speeds that would be impossible with air resistance. It was inspired by pneumatic mail tubes used more than 100 years ago.

According to calculations, a fully-functioning hyperloop could reach speeds of more than 1,200 km/h (746 mph), which would rival commercial airplanes.